Reflexivity
eBook - ePub

Reflexivity

The Essential Guide

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Reflexivity

The Essential Guide

About this book

Reflexivity – the critical examination of how we see the world – is integral to good research practice. From this state-of-the-art, accessible tour of its history and contemporary relevance, readers will learn of its importance to social research and to society generally. The text introduces a host of influential thinkers and their key ideas on reflexivity, and incorporates examples from a range of disciplines and research settings. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience of real research settings, this book:

  • Pinpoints the importance of reflexivity in social research
  • Demonstrates its relevance to everyday life
  • Firmly locates the concept in the history of ideas
  • Explores key questions about the bases of knowledge and understanding
  • Presents key thinkers, concepts and issues in easy-to-understand learning boxes

The result is a book that provides students and researchers in the social sciences with the knowledge and understanding necessary not only to examine the role of reflexivity in contemporary life, but to apply it in their own research practice.

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Yes, you can access Reflexivity by Tim May,Beth Perry,Author in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Science Research & Methodology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Publisher Note
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Sidebar List
  8. About the Authors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Thought and Knowledge in the History of Ideas
  12. 2 Will, Interpretation and Being
  13. 3 Pragmatism, Practice and Language
  14. 4 Critique and Transformation
  15. 5 Power and Action
  16. 6 The Dynamics of Science in Society
  17. 7 Reflexive Practice
  18. 8 Reflexivity Realised
  19. References
  20. Author Index
  21. Index